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Connections answers for 4 September 2026

Friday, 4 September 2026 · Puzzle 1181

All four groups for puzzle 1181. This page shows the answers in full.

Yellow: spherical things

BOWLING BALLEYEMOONORANGE

Green: food whose name is two foods

CAKE DONUTCANDY CORNCHERRY TOMATOPIZZA PIE

Blue: kinds of eels

CONGERGULPERMORAYRIBBON

Purple: accessories inside starting and ending letters

CRINGYOPINESTIEDTHAT'S

Try your groups on today's grid

This is today's grid as the game lays it out. Tap four words that belong together and press Check. We will tell you if it is a group, one word away, or not a group. You get four mistakes, the same as the game.

Mistakes left: ● ● ● ●

Stuck on one group?

Each group opens in three steps: a nudge, then its category, then the four words. Open only as many as you need.

Yellow

Not opened yet.

Green

Not opened yet.

Blue

Not opened yet.

Purple

Not opened yet.

The hints we wrote

  1. Yellow is the easiest group and purple the hardest. One yellow word is BOWLING BALL.
  2. Yellow is about: spherical things.
  3. Green is about: food whose name is two foods.
  4. Blue is about: kinds of eels.
  5. Purple is about: accessories inside starting and ending letters.

Neighbouring days

Questions, answered briefly

What were the Connections answers for 4 September 2026?

Yellow (spherical things): BOWLING BALL, EYE, MOON, ORANGE. Green (food whose name is two foods): CAKE DONUT, CANDY CORN, CHERRY TOMATO, PIZZA PIE. Blue (kinds of eels): CONGER, GULPER, MORAY, RIBBON. Purple (accessories inside starting and ending letters): CRINGY, OPINE, STIED, THAT'S.

Which group was hardest?

Purple is the hardest by design. That day it was accessories inside starting and ending letters.

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